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Security researchers report the largest known botnet has grown tenfold to 13.5 million devices, fueling a sustained 2Tbps DDoS attack on a betting sector target. The escalation underscores the rising ...

Europol and the US Department of Justice are claiming big wins against a large swath of the global cybercrime botnet infrastructure. Europol coordinated the international effort to neutralize dropper ...

The Justice Department said the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDIG) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed seizure warrants targeting multiple U.S.-registered ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department. The collection of millions of ...

From the dark side comes an ominous new botnet called Darkness that researchers say is quite impressive and is targeting a wide variety of websites. In the last month, Darkness has become a very ...

The second man charged in 2006 computer attacks on The Planet and T35 Hosting has agreed to plead guilty. According to court filings, Thomas James Frederick Smith is set to plead guilty before a ...

A new variant of the Mirai-based botnet malware Aquabot has been observed actively exploiting CVE-2024-41710, a command injection vulnerability in Mitel SIP phones. The activity was discovered by ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

Federal authorities in the United States, working with law enforcement in Canada and Germany, said they disrupted four major IoT-based botnets in a coordinated action announced in mid-March 2026. The ...